CONTENT: PREFACE I-XIV CHAPTER1 1 How to start out? 1 ‘Swing eighth notes’ and their notation 2 The pulse, perception of tempo and the groove 3 Scales and key 6 The major scales and how to practice them 8 Scale variations 11 Arpeggiated triads on the degrees of the major scale 12 Arpegg. 7th chords on the degrees of the major scale 14 CHAPTER 2 17 The three minor scales 17 Which minor scale where? 18 Major mixed in a minor key (dur-moll) 19 Minor mixed in a major key (moll-dur) 20 All the minor scales in 12 keys 22 Variations of the minor scales 23 How to transpose the scales 23 The minor scales with added chromatic notes 25 The chromatic scale 27 CHAPTER 3 29 The chord progression or ‘the changes’ and form 29 The harmonies of the chord progression 31 Melody and melodic accents 33 Scales and arpeggios 35 Inversions of chords on the degrees of the scale 37 Leading tones and enclosures 39 The turnaround I-VI-II-V 43 CHAPTER 4 45 In Practice 45 HoneySuckLe RoSe 45 TAke THe A- TRAIn 51 AuTuMn LeAVeS 53 eighth note lines and the tempo 56 CHAPTER 5 57 Resumé 57 change of key (1) 58 Secondary functions for II in major 60 Tonicization of VI in major 62 Tonicization of VI in minor 65 Tonicization of III in major 66 Applying moll-dur 68 In Practice: LAdy BIRd 69 CHAPTER 6 71 extensions and upper structures of chords 71 The harmonic function of chords 73 The mystic chord 75 The melodic function of chord extensions 76 examples of upper structures in melodic lines 78 Practicing extending chords 80 Applying upper structures 81 The pivot and angular breaking of chords 82 CHAPTER 7 87 The ‘Seven Sevenths’ 87 diminished chords 1 90 diminished chords 2 91 Playing on a diminished chord with subdom. function 93 The blues and the diminished chord 96 The diminished chord in rhythm changes 97 The diminished scale 100 Vertical or Horizontal? 101 CHAPTER 8 103 Target notes 103 Tension notes 105 enclosures and changing notes 107 Inserted chromatic notes 108 Placing of inserted notes 112 Alternate ascending and descending progressions 114 examples of melodic lines 116 CHAPTER 9 119 Interpreting the chord progression 119 The true nature of the tritone 123 The tritone substitution as used by charlie Parker 125 The tritone II-V (as used by Bud Powell) 127 composite enclosures 128 change of key (2) 130 exercises 132 CHAPTER 10 133 Rhythm changes and the I-VI-II-V progression 133 The dominant chain and the bridge of I G oT RHyTHM 135 The ‘fast’ dominant chain 137 The II-V chain 138 Variations on the A-sections of I G oT RHyTHM 140 'changes' 143 exercises 147 deceptive cadences (interrupted cadences) 148 CHAPTER 11 153 The Blues 153 Adaptations in the Blues 155 Blues in Bebop 158 The minorblues 163 Variations on the minorblues 164 CHAPTER 12 167 Two beloved standards… 167 HoW HIGH THe Moon 168 ALL THe THInGS you ARe 170 ... A challenge 172 cHeRokee 174 FOR VOCALISTS 175 Vocal improvisation 175 Articulation 177 How and what should singers practice? 178 ‘Hitting’ the seventh 179 The diminished intervals 180 The whole tone scale and the augmented triad 181 EPILOGUE 185 ✻ ✻ ✻.